Eight rockets fired from a Takfiri-controlled area of Syria slammed into a Turkish border town on Tuesday, killing two people including a four-year-old child, officials said.

Eight rockets fired from a Takfiri-controlled area of Syria slammed into a Turkish border town on Tuesday, killing two people including a four-year-old child, officials said.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu confirmed two Turkish citizens in the town of Kilis had been killed by fire coming from an area in Syria controlled by ISIL (so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Levant) Takfiris and that the Turkish army had returned fire.

"Any attack against Turkey will be responded to in the most severe manner and we have already given instructions to our armed forces in this regard," Davutoglu said at a news conference alongside Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.
"We had already made our preparations."

Some of the Katyusha-type rockets hit empty areas in Kilis, but at least one caused casualties, Turkish media quoted the mayor Hasan Kara as saying.

A woman aged 54 was killed in the strike while shrapnel hit a passing car in which two children aged six and four were travelling, the state run Anatolia news agency said.

The four-year-old boy died of his wounds on the way to hospital, it added. The six-year-old was also wounded.

It is the first such incident since January 18, when a rocket fired from an ISIL-controlled position in Syria killed a janitor and wounded a pupil at a school in Kilis.

Television footage showed anxious residents inspecting a crater made by one of the rockets as another missile slammed into the ground nearby.

Mayor Kara urged residents not to panic, CNN-Turk said.

Turkey has on occasion been accused by its western allies, of not doing enough to combat the threat of ISIL, which has captured swathes of Iraq and Syria right up to its border.